Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Join us for a free organ recital by cathedral organist Christopher Keady, featuring music of Eastertide by Widor, Czech composer Jiří Ropek, and renowned improviser David Briggs. The program will open with the joyful peals of Bach’s rarely-heard Prelude and Fugue in E major.
Our organ recital series features some of the finest organists playing one of America’s great organs. Grace Cathedral’s 7,466-pipe Aeolian-Skinner instrument, the Charles B. Alexander Memorial Organ (1934), is one of the first and finest American classic-style organs and is among the largest church organs in the West. Experiencing music in our gothic cathedral with its unique acoustics, soaring nave, and jewel-like stained glass windows is a feast for the ears, eyes, and soul.
Program
Prelude and Fugue in E major, BWV 566
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Choral, from Symphonie romane
Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)
Le Tombeau de Duruflé
VIII. Attende, Do
IX. Pange lingua
X. Ecce lignum crucis
XI. Christus vincit
David Briggs (b. 1962)
Variations on Victimae paschali laudes
Jiří Ropek (1922-2005)
Join us for a free organ recital by cathedral organist Christopher Keady, featuring music of Eastertide by Widor, Czech composer Jiří Ropek, and renowned improviser David Briggs. The program will open with the joyful peals of Bach’s rarely-heard Prelude and Fugue in E major.
Our organ recital series features some of the finest organists playing one of America’s great organs. Grace Cathedral’s 7,466-pipe Aeolian-Skinner instrument, the Charles B. Alexander Memorial Organ (1934), is one of the first and finest American classic-style organs and is among the largest church organs in the West. Experiencing music in our gothic cathedral with its unique acoustics, soaring nave, and jewel-like stained glass windows is a feast for the ears, eyes, and soul.
Program
Prelude and Fugue in E major, BWV 566
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Choral, from Symphonie romane
Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)
Le Tombeau de Duruflé
VIII. Attende, Do
IX. Pange lingua
X. Ecce lignum crucis
XI. Christus vincit
David Briggs (b. 1962)
Variations on Victimae paschali laudes
Jiří Ropek (1922-2005)
